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Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain!Just think of all thetrillions and trillions of neuronsthatDIEeach daybecause there areNOeffective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 493 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.My back ground story is here:http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-background-story_8.html

Monday, May 8, 2017

Marijuana's mind-altering compound may improve memory in old mice

Not to be tried on your own. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/05/08/marijuanas-mind-altering-compound-may-improve-memory.html
Marijuana's main psychoactive compound, THC , may improve memory, according to a new study in mice.
However, more research is needed to see whether these findings would apply to people, the researchers said.
The researchers found that old mice in the study
experienced "a dramatic improvement in cognitive functions" after the
animals were given small daily doses of THC for about a month, said
study co-author Andreas Zimmer, a professor of molecular psychiatry at
the University of Bonn in Germany.
Previous research in people — in teens and young
adults — as well as in young animals has suggested that THC may actually
impair cognition , but it was not clear how the compound might affect
the aging brain in older individuals.

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In the new study, the researchers looked at 17 young
mice, which were 2 months old; 24 mature mice, which were 1 year old;
and 29 mice that were 18 months old, considered old for mice. The
researchers implanted small pumps into the bodies of all mice in the
study. In about half of the mice in each age group, the pumps contained a
small amount of THC that was released into the mice's bodies daily for
about a month. In the other half of the mice, the pumps contained a
control substance, without THC.
The researchers then conducted a few behavioral
experiments to test the mice's cognitive skills, including their memory
and ability to learn new information. For example, in one of the tasks,
the scientists placed the mice in a pool of water with a hidden platform
that allowed the rodents to escape the water once they could find it.
In the control group, the mature mice and the old mice took longer to
learn to climb out than the young mice.
However, both mature mice and old mice that had been
treated with THC learned the task faster than the control mice in
corresponding age groups.
In some of the experiments, THC seemed to improve the
memory in the older mice to such an extent that some aspects of their
memory were as good as those of young mice.
However, in the younger mice given THC, the compound
seemed to worsen their performance at cognitive tasks . This finding is
in line with previous research that has shown the detrimental effects
that THC may have on cognition in young people and animals, according to
the study, published today (May 8) in the journal Nature Medicine.
To try to figure out the potential mechanisms behind
the findings, the researchers also examined how the THC interacted with
gene expression in a brain region called the hippocampus in the mice. It
turned out that administering the compound to the older mice led to a
change in those patterns, bringing them back to a state similar to the
patterns seen in the young control mice. In contrast, administering THC
to the young mice led to a gene expression pattern that resembled that
of the older control mice.
The researchers don't yet know if THC could help to improve memory in aging humans , but they are planning tests, Zimmer said.Originally published onLive Science.

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